IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME
"Most companies are not yet convinced of that. I think they will be, eventually."
I said the last sentence and felt something, not déjà vu exactly but the specific quality of a phrase that had been said before in a different context.
Someone will make them the same thing eventually.
My wife's father, in 1994, at a dinner in London, to the man who would arrange his death.
He was right then.
I was quoting him now without knowing I was quoting him.
After the formal meeting, in the reception that followed, I was talking to Fatima about the development finance parallels she saw in Crawford's East Africa expansion plans, which Madeline had briefed me on that morning, when a woman I recognised from